In this paper, I show how humiliation, as a moral emotion, is a pervasive yet neglected dimension of medicine, health and ethics discourse. Although often conflated with shame, humiliation names a ...

Medical humanities scholarship has long emphasised the role of narrative in clinical practice, where it is valued for humanising medicine and revealing the subjective dimensions of illness. This focus ...

“Whatever you asked for you got”: the impact of charitable funding of paediatric oncology in the UK – from 1960 to 2000 ...

Qualitative Research Unit, School Sport and Health Sciences, St Luke’s Campus, University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, UK Correspondence to: A C Sparkes Qualitative Research Unit, School Sport and Health ...

While recent medical innovation shows great promise in treating hepatitis C (HCV), it remains a condition associated with profound stigma. HCV is a bloodborne virus (BBV) most commonly transmitted in ...

Liverpool is perceived as exceptional, a city apart from the nation, and its health services are no different. Alder Hey, the city’s children’s hospital, reaffirms this perspective. Its name is ...

Correspondence to Professor Marta Bladek, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Lloyd Sealy Library, 899 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY 10019, USA; mbladek{at}jjay.cuny.edu In the foreword to her Memoir ...

We report a survey of audience members' responses (147 questionnaires collected at seven performances) and 10 in-depth interviews (five former patients and two family members, three medical ...

Art can have a positive impact on health and well-being and be efficacious in health research and dissemination processes. However, creative, arts-based approaches to research and knowledge ...

Orthorexia nervosa (ON) – a pathological obsession with healthy eating – has emerged as a cultural pathology intricately woven into neoliberal ideologies and biopolitical regimes. This paper ...

This article explores the role of humour and satire in promoting multispecies planetary health, with a focus on the work of Indian cartoonist Rohan Chakravarty. Following a critical examination of ...